Desk · stocks & options
Stocks Desk — Where the activist money goes, you go.
Every 13D filing, every fresh news cycle, every options sweep — read in real time, cross-referenced against memory, and alerted only when activist money, market structure and momentum all point the same way. The stocks desk is EMI's flagship lane.
- 22 activist funds tracked
- <5 min filing-to-alert
- 2.0× reward-to-risk floor
- 3 integrity gates
What the desk watches
Where the alpha actually lives.
Equity edge for retail isn't in faster ticks — it's in filings the institutions are forced to publish. EMI watches every 13D, 13G, 8-K, S-1, S-3, Reg-FD, executive change and options-flow snapshot. Convergence — not single-source — is the trigger.
- Activist filings. Elliott, Pershing Square, Icahn, Starboard, ValueAct and 17 more — anytime an issuer crosses 5%, you'll see it.
- Multi-fund overlap. Two independent activists landing on the same ticker is a Tier-A signal regardless of price action.
- Options flow. Direction-classified P/C volume, OI shifts and sweep notional. Conflicts with the package direction get blocked.
- Structure. No alert without confirmed breakout, reclaim, or convergence. Early-structure ideas go to the watchlist instead of getting upgraded to a trade.
Anatomy of a stocks alert
What the alert actually contains.
- Header
Tier · ticker · direction
Tier A (convergence), Tier B (pattern + TA) or Tier C (research watch). Direction classified, not implied.
- Catalyst
Why now
The triggering filing or event, with a one-line thesis. No filler.
- Trade plan
Entry · stop · T1 / T2 / T3
Live current price, asset-aware stop, three-stage target ladder, position size at 1% risk capped at $1k.
- Evidence spine
The receipts
Tier-1 SEC anchors, options-IV rank, TA snapshot grade, regime tilt — the things a desk would check before a buy ticket.